Asha Rangappa

Asha Rangappa is director of admissions and a senior lecturer at the Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Prior to her current position, Asha served as a special agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. She is a legal and national security analyst for CNN.

Her work involved assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign agents, and performing undercover work. While at the FBI, Asha gained experience in intelligence tradecraft, electronic surveillance, interview and interrogation techniques, and firearms and the use of deadly force.

Expertise: National security, domestic terrorism, firearms and the use of deadly force, counterintelligence, surveillance, international affairs